 | Great Britain - 1833 - 490 pages
...and comprehensive view of the great practical principle which directed all Mr. Bentham's efforts. " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure : these two masters govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think. It is for these sovereign... | |
 | Great Britain - 1833 - 492 pages
...and comprehensive view of the great practical principle which directed all Mr. Bentham's efforts. " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, Pain and Pleasure : these two masters govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think. It is for these sovereign... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1891 - 580 pages
...aholished, ' must ' reigns without restriction ; for it is the same writer who magisterially asserts that ' Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is lor them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. On the one... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1850 - 368 pages
...theory, also, ns to the basis of moral obligation, ninv be learned by two characteristic passages: — " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. Jt is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do. Un... | |
 | Secularism - 1850 - 574 pages
...foremost among the benefactors of the human race, with which the world has ever yet been blessed. That nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure — that these two masters govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think — that every effort... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1874 - 618 pages
...and his school. His doctrine was, that " happiness is our being's end and aim." He maintained that " nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure; "* and that pleasure is the sole standard of right and wrong for all intelligent beings. How completely... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1883 - 648 pages
...least, was satisfied with the general statement, when he gives, as the first sentence of his book: — "Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. A man may pretend to abjure their empire ; but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while."... | |
 | Christianity - 1879 - 610 pages
...Professor Jevons' theory, such, eg, as are suggested by his adoption of Jeremy Bentham's dictum that " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters — pain md. pleasure," and the extreme utilitarianism based upon this supposed fact. But we will only point... | |
 | Alfred Barratt - Philosophy - 1883 - 360 pages
...a good in itself." Bentham commences his Principles of Morals and Legislation in these words — " Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. ... On the one hand the standard of right and wrong, on the other the chain of causes and effects,... | |
 | Philosophy - 1883 - 644 pages
...least, was satisfied with the general statement, when he gives, as the first sentence of his book: —" Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. A man may pretend to abjure their empire; but in reality he will remain subject to it all the while."... | |
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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. 
